Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Lessig turns his keen insight and trademark presentation style towards the analysis of corruption as he steps away from 10 years of focusing on intellectual property issues and their impacts on culture, creativity and innovation. I wish him luck as he will have the full force of the ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Lessig's presentation on the control of US airwaves is brilliantly clear, as usual:
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
We've all heard the platitude before: today's culture is going down the tubes. In recent history, major conduits for cultural influence have been "talking machines" (radio) and "boob tubes" (TV). More recently we have the rapid increase in influence of the internet (also composed of "tubes" if you listen to ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Bob Frankston hits the "network neutrality" nail squarely on the head in his article "Our Internet!"
We are the Internet...We don’t need be given “Internet” by a central authority because the defining principle is that we can and must connect from the edge rather than relying on carrier be it a ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Stéphane Dion, former Canadian environment minister, was elected leader of the Liberal Party at a dramatic convention in Montreal. A darkhorse candidate, Mr. Dion does not come off as a typical politician rather he retains much of the style and demeanor of the university professor he once was.
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
The NYTimes has an interesting article (login required) about efforts in the US intelligence community to harness the power of "web 2.0" blogs, wikis and social networking in the interest of more efficient collaboration:
Something had gone horribly awry, Burton realized. Theoretically, the intelligence world ought to revolve around information sharing. ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Chris Anderson of Long Tail fame "cheekily" coins freeconomics as shorthand for his more recent thesis on "economics of abundance". (I should mention that he does so with apologies to Freakonomics) Anderson points out how technology that was once scarce is fast becoming a cheap enough commodity to be offered ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Visualization can be a powerful tool, not only for education but also for exploring information and generating new ideas. Hans Rosling from the impressive Gapminder project gives an excellent presentation exposing how powerful visualization tools combined with public domain data could be important drivers of social change.
One of the barriers ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
That Canada ranked #2 in defending the privacy of its citizens is perhaps more of a sad comment on international complacence on privacy issues than a major achievement of which we can be particularly proud. From The Globe and Mail:
LONDON — Germany and Canada are the best defenders of privacy, ...
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Adam over at Emergent Chaos clarifies some Network Neutrality concepts for his readers in his post Innovation, Emerging From Chaos.
He points out that "the regulatory apparatus has fairly clearly been captured by the regulated". Basically the big telecom corporations have learned how to thrive on regulation, and this has implications ...
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